Java 8 - drop with Quarkus 1.6

[Joachim Glink]

In the latest Quarkus 1.4 release notes it´s mentioned that Java 8 support will be dropped with Quarkus 1.6

That would mean that Quarkus Apps could not be run with Azure Functions anymore as Azure Functions are bound to Java 1.8

In the same release notes, improvements for function frameworks (FaaS) are mentions and especially for Lambda and Azure Functions.

Isn´t this somehow contradictory?

Regards

J. Glink

[Guillaume Smet]

Hi Joachim,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 9:54 AM Joachim Glink <joachi...@gmail.com> wrote:

That would mean that Quarkus Apps could not be run with Azure Functions anymore as Azure Functions are bound to Java 1.8

Thanks for reaching out! That was quick!

That's one of the things we keep an eye on. We had some feedback that Azure Functions would support Java 11 at some point, not yet sure about the timing though.

Obviously this is an important element we take into consideration and we discussed it a few times among the team. Current decision is to wait for them to support Java 11 before dropping Java 8 entirely from Quarkus with the hope that the stars will be aligned.

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Guillaume

[Joachim Glink]

That sounds good.

Hope, that Azure Functions will soon support Java 11 and that Quarkus will support Java 8 as long, too.